The impact of clinically undiagnosed injuries on survival estimates

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 449-455

  Gedeborg, Rolf ^a,b   Thiblin, Ingemar ^a   Byberg, Liisa ^b   Wernroth, Lisa ^b   Michaëlsson, Karl ^b  

^a Units for Anesthesiology and Intensive Care ^*  (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Outcome assessment; Registries; Survival; Traumatology

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DROWNING; FEMALE; FIRE; FRACTURE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEAT INJURY; HOMICIDE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; INTOXICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MACHINE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OVEREXERTION; PELVIS INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX INJURY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REGISTRIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650355511     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318194b164     Document Type: Article

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